[NLRS] June contest prop report de KA0RYT EN35ct

[Ronald Bergantzel]

> Hello All - I thought that I would drop you a line to let
>  you know of the propagation we had here in EN35 on 144 mhz. I
>  worked aurora, meteor scatter ,tropo and sporadic E during
>  the contest. I live in Milaca, MN and have a little setup
>  at grandma's farm that is 6 mi north of Foreston, MN
>  EN35ct.  I starting working 2 meter au at 2147z thru 0042z
> on
>  Saturday afternoon with some of best dx from grids DN86
>  (N0UD ) , DN94 (WD0T) to EN94 (VE3KHM/R), EN50 (K0PG/R and
>  K9ZO ) to EM39 (N0PB). It was great to be hammering away
> at
>  the AU !!! Then on wsjt I worked N8RA - FN31 (random QSO
> at
>  0741) - Sunday morning)and 2 wsjt skeds - VE2DSB - FN35
>  (1230 sked) and WB2RVX - FM29 (1330 sked ).... Then on to
>  Sporadic E time starting at 1402 on Sunday morning I
> worked
>  stns K3FM -EM50, K5LLL -EM10, K5TR -EM00 , K5DYY - EL07,
>  W5ERX - EL09 , NOQX - EL15 (his QRZ addr EL15GV : at
> 2238km
>  pretty much straight south!!),KD5DSQ - EM10 , W5UWB -EL17
> ,
>  WA5IYX - EL09 , and finishing at 1513z
>  with KG5DF - EL18. THEN more sporadic E s continued at
>  1747z with WA7JTM - DM53 , AA7A -DM43 , WJ0F - DM45 , N7IR
>  - DM44 , K7CA -DM37 , K7BTE - DM37 and finshed at aprox
> 1830z
>  with a near QSO with K7XC !!! All in all it was a great
>  fathers day here ! My station out at the farm consists of
> a
>  2M12 at 65ft ,  a modified FT-897D (seperated rcv/xmt
> lines)
>  a homebrew cavity preamp at 0.32db noise figure , a mirage
>  driver brick , and a homebrew GS-35 amp running 1.5kw. I
>  did hear just a few of the locals working the 5 - land DX
> ,
>  but not many were heard working the 7 - land DX probably
> due
>  to the fact the 50 mhz was really hopping at that time . A
>  quick 2 meter total was 104 QSOs and 53 grids.  I hope
> this
>  info helps out on propagation data for the 2008 June
>  contest. 73, KA0RYT Ron Bergantzel